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HIGH

Kernel: KVM: DoS via write flood to I/O port 0x80

Published Dec 11, 2017

Description

The Linux Kernel 2.6.32 and later are affected by a denial of service, by flooding the diagnostic port 0x80 an exception can be triggered leading to a kernel panic.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

References (21)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 11, 2017
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Dec 5, 2017
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 1, 2017